The Rosegarden team is proud to announce the release of version 13.06 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux.

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http://​www.rosegardenmusic.com/​

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The biggest highlight of 13.06 is that Ted Felix has reduced CPU usage by almost 50% when recording MIDI. Rosegarden has been plagued with MIDI recording problems for most of its history, and this improvement is huge. While Ted worked on stabilization,​ Tom Breton made significant improvements in a variety of areas. ​ (See new features enumerated below.)

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This release should be significantly more stable than recent versions, and we encourage all users to give this improved version a try.

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===== Bug Fixes =====

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* Fix disappearing ties in notation editor

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* Program changes are now sent on channels for tracks that are armed when going into record. ​ (Bug #1356 "Wrong instrument when recording on multiple tracks/​​channels",​ r13248.)

* Range commands also try to keep linked segments linked together when possible.

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===== New Features =====

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* Additional work and improvements on the pitchbend sequence dialog

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* * Controllers are now easier to place and arrange thru the Notation -> Adjust -> controllers -> Insert Controller Sequence... menu. The dialog isn't new but it is clearer than before and gives you more control over what is placed. ​ This was a joint effort of Tom Breton (Tehom) and Tim Munro.

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* "Move to Staff Above" and "Move to Staff Below" now have variants that ask what type of pasting to do; formerly it was always notation-style pasting.

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* It is now easier to create beat tracks, ie tracks that have a note on each beat for use with FitToBeatsCommand and/or groove quantize. ​ See [[how_to_make_beat_tracks]]

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* For those users (both of you) who use Segment -> Expand Block Chord Segments by Figuration, there is now support for figurations without parameter chords.

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* Also for those who use Segment -> Expand Block Chord Segments by Figuration, there is Segment -> Update all Figurations,​ which tracks down all regions previously generated from figurations and updates them.

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* Ornaments can now be [[how_to_edit_ornaments|inspected and edited]] inline, as notation. ​ Formerly they were only available in the Event List Editor.

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* If you want to try to use Rosegarden as a true layered editor, ornaments whose trigger consists of tied notes can even be set so that only certain sections play.

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* Range commands and other commands that move segments timewise are faster now.